Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Awarded the Royal title in 1957, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra presents its schedule of concerts under the aegis of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society, which offered its first event on March 12, 1840. It is the U.K.'s oldest continuing professional symphony orchestra.
Vasily Petrenko was appointed principal conductor of the orchestra in September 2006 and in September 2009 became chief conductor. Petrenko joins a distinguished line of musicians who have led the orchestra during its illustrious history, including Max Bruch, Sir Charles Hallé, Sir Henry Wood, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Sir John Pritchard, and Sir Charles Groves, among many other notable names. The orchestra gives over 60 concerts each season, and in recent seasons has given world premiere performances of major works by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Sir John Tavener, James Horner, and Sir James MacMillan, among others, alongside works by Liverpool-born composers and others based in North West England. Alone among Britain's orchestral societies, the RLPS owns its own concert hall, a 1939 art deco structure designed by Herbert J. Rowse. Collaborations with international artists from rock and pop include those with Liverpool's own Sir Paul McCartney (the Liverpool Oratorio), Elvis Costello, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, and Echo & the Bunnymen.
In the 2010s, additions to the orchestra's critically acclaimed catalog of recordings include Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony and Pastoral Symphony with Andrew Manze. Manze's Vaughan Williams cycle was the orchestra's second to receive wide acclaim; an earlier set under Vernon Handley was recorded in the mid-80s. With Petrenko, recordings include Rachmaninov's complete piano concertos and three symphonies, and the complete symphonies of Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, and Elgar. The recording of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 was the Gramophone Awards' Orchestral Recording of the Year in 2011. Tchaikovsky's Symphonies 1, 2 and 5 won Orchestral Recording of the Year and Recording of the Year at the BBC Magazine Awards in 2017. The orchestra has been extremely prolific on recordings in the late 2010s, issuing nine recordings during the year 2019 alone. The orchestra has often recorded for Onyx Classics and Naxos but has also been heard on many other labels, including Warner Classics, Toccata Classics, and Champs Hill Records. By 2020, the orchestra's catalog numbered more than 100 albums. That year, the orchestra released albums of music by Elgar, Edward Cowie, and Stravinsky.
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ROREM: Violin Concerto / Flute Concerto / Pilgrims
Classical - Released by Naxos on 16 May 2006
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Classical Music: 50 of the Best Film Classics
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Classical - Released by Naxos Special Projects on 1 Oct 2012
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Debussy, Dukas, Roussel
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Domingo Hindoyan
Classical - Released by PM Classics Ltd. on 23 Sep 2022
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Higdon : Concerto pour violon / Tchaïkovski : Concerto pour violon en ré majeur Op. 35
Hilary Hahn, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 1 Jan 2010
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La crème de la crème: Classiques du cinéma
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Classical - Released by Naxos Special Projects - France on 1 Oct 2012
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Stravinsky: Petrushka, Rossini/Respighi: La Boutique Fantasque
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Ballets - Released by PM Classics Ltd. on 30 Oct 2020
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Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Variations & Fugue on a theme by Purcell, Op. 34
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Classical - Released by PM Classics Ltd. on 25 Jun 2021
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Cavalleria rusticana: Intermezzo
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Domingo Hindoyan
Classical - Released by Onyx Classics on 15 Sep 2023
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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 5 & 0
Boris Giltburg, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Classical - Released by Naxos on 11 Mar 2022
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ALWYN: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones
Classical - Released by Naxos on 1 Jan 2005
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Manon Lescaut, Act III: Intermezzo
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Domingo Hindoyan
Classical - Released by Onyx Classics on 25 Aug 2023
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Hérold, Lanchbery: La fille mal gardée
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 9 Nov 2021
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Grands thèmes du cinéma
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Classical - Released by Naxos Special Projects - France on 29 Oct 2007
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Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow; A Shropshire Lad/ /McGunn: The Land of the Mountain and the Flood/Coleridge-Taylor: Symphonic Variations on an African Air &c.
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Grant Llewellyn
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 Jan 1993
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Hovhaness: Mysterious Mountains
Gerard Schwarz, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Classical - Released by Telarc on 22 Apr 2003
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Stravinsky: The Firebird & Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel Suite
Vasily Petrenko, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Ballets - Released by Onyx Classics on 30 Nov 2018
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...og lengra (Orchestral Version)
Ólafur Arnalds, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Robert Ames
Classical - Released by Mercury Classics on 30 Aug 2019
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The Solent: 50 Years of Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Andrew Kennedy, Roland Wood, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Paul Daniel
Classical - Released by Albion on 2 Sep 2013
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Pop Goes Classical
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Classical - Released by Decca (UMO) (Classics) on 2 Jun 2017
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Higdon - Tchaikovsky : Concertos pour violon
Hilary Hahn, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 1 Jan 2010
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